Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

A big thanks to the awesome folks from @thebeautifulidea for having us on to talk about the history and future of subMedia, and to shoot the shit about anarchist media more generally.

https://itsgoingdown.org/a-discussion-on-interrebellium-with-submedia/

Apparently, Farage has issued a statement to UK councils saying anyone working on climate change projects should start looking for another job.

And he wants to set up a UK style DOGE to reduce waste. Does he know most councils are stripped to the bone and can barely pay for anything? Plus DOGE has been such a success in the US! [Sarcasm]

Fuck off you frog faced [c word expletive]!

#UKPolitics

France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/04/france-eu-us-based-scientists-come-to-europe-emmanuel-macron-ursula-von-der-leyen "Macron and von der Leyen expected to announce protections for researchers seeking to relocate amid #Trump’s crackdown" #shrewd

So much of the destruction in the USA is away from the spotlight at grass roots level. But the foundations of a modern society are being smashed. The National Science Foundation has just stopped awarding new grants and funding existing ones. That effectively means that work on all existing NSF grants has to stop immediately. Universities are telling researchers to stop spending on those grants right away. That's jobs and progress and opportunity just being eradicated.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

Fireside Housing Coop, associates of #RadicalRoutes, seeks a new member to join the thriving Sheffield community.

Applications welcome from single parents - a smaller room is available which could suit a child.

For more info or to apply for membership email fireside_housing_co-op@riseup.net

You’ll have the chance to meet current members, ask questions, and get a sense of how they live and work together, to create secure, affordable, and community-focused housing.

https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/fireside-housing-co-op

May the Fourth be with you.
Attack the Death Star every day.
(https://tomdbug.wpcomstaging.com/the-inner-hive/)

Why #Balcony #Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US - https://www.wired.com/story/why-balcony-solar-hasnt-taken-off-in-the-us/ "In countries like Germany, balcony-mounted solar panels are all the rage. But from breaker-masking to voltage mismatches, America’s grid isn’t ready for it—yet." #renewables

Biden didn’t “fail” to stop the Gaza genocide—he helped run cover for it. Now his own staff are admitting what we knew all along: there was never a ceasefire plan. Just lies, weapons, and mass death. #GazaGenocide
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION:

I don't care about the environmental cost of AI.

I care that unscrupulous sociopaths have convinced enough gullible fools that LLMs *are intelligent* to create a damaging economic hype bubble that, like all such bubbles, causes environmental damage as a side-effect! Along with mass-deskilling and unemployment and profits for trillionaires.

Get people to realize that it's not intelligence at work, it's just statistical modeling, and tackle the root of the problem!

"Liberal analysts refuse to confront their own complicity in this dynamic. Instead, we have Michael Scherer in the Washington Post outrageously lumping together the baseless and dangerous conspiracies of the hard right with Bernie Sanders’s ... apparently because Sanders sees a society in crisis and 'points to the ultrarich' – as if stratospheric wealth concentration and legalized corruption are mere figments of the Vermont senator’s imagination."

#NaomiKlein, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/ignoring-robert-f-kennedy-jr-not-an-option

The United States is committing national suicide. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

Depraved indifference may be the best way to describe this: https://www.apskilledmymom.com/resources/myers

Thanks to @micahflee we can all examine the source code of that weird #Signal app variant from Telemessage that is used by Tim Waltz and possibly more Trump admin members.

iOS: https://github.com/micahflee/TM-SGNL-iOS
Android: https://github.com/micahflee/TM-SGNL-Android

(it's GPLv3 licensed, so Telemessage should be fine with this ;)

The democracies of the world that still use the old first-past-the-post voting system need to adopt a form of preferential voting (or single transferable vote or ranked choice)... This video shows how the UK's local politics are being hobbled by its decrepit voting system: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9mEZofx3Na4 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mEZofx3Na4

Windows 10 support ends soon. Millions of perfectly working computers may be scrapped just because they can’t run Win11. It’s absurd. https://endof10.org encourages people to switch to Linux - and offers volunteers' help. I moved from Windows to Linux in recent years and couldn’t be happier. My favourite old laptop, an affordable model which carried me through years of PhD, now runs like new. If you’re curious to try but nervous, I’m happy to help!

#Linux #FOSS #RightToRepair #EndOf10

It must be cold comfort to the US that it's new main purpose in the world order is to act as a warning to others. Good on you Canada and Oz for running the right wing asshats out on a rail. Now all you need to do is elect actual progressives instead of 'shit-lite'.

This week's comic: A "manly" economy

#economy #oligarchy #gender #authoritarianism #labor #jobs #inequality #work

@existentialcomics @tdp_org yeah, capitalism gave us CompuServe and AOL. The government gave us the Internet.

Come with me, on an NYT Idiot Safari ... https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/5/2/2319992/-Cartoon-Unfocused-groups

well, looks like i'm getting kicked out of my home soon /srs


i would appreciate help in this regard, my german skills aren't that great so contacting authorities to help isn't too easy for me. i currently live near darmstadt/mannheim for reference.

boosts appreciated. #mutualaid